West Ham United
This summer window invited Lopetegui want to change the team's style of play, the past Moyes coached the team many times less than 30% of the ball possession, the field is very passive, in the previous seasons of the double line of battle ultimately did not have access to the European Cup, West Ham United's management is determined to change the team's style of play, the summer window attraction efforts are also a lot of Wambiza Card
, Phil Kruger, Somerville, Kilman, Kilhelm, and many more, including the
England Premier Soccer League
and other Big 5 ready players, and also loaned out last season's starters like Walter Prowse, who didn't mesh with the new coach's system in training.
The team's tactical changes always need time to precipitate, before the Moyes period West Ham United's 4231 formation is to rely on the side of the counter-attacking speed, the center back of the compact drop low defense. Now Lopetegui tried a variety of systems of three center backs and four defenders, the last face Brentford away from home, the home team is likely to continue the framework of the 4141 formation. Paqueta
And Sauchek two people itself defense interceptions are tougher, and then Rodriguez dragged back to intercept sweep, so the three midfield face to the opponent's penetration of the middle can be more comfortable to solve the siege. Kudus and Bowen's counter-attack speed sharp, winger Antonio is also often back to get the ball and then split the side, in the midfield and back of the compact 4141 formation, West Ham United's defense has improved a little.
Ipswich (city in Croatia)
Promoted, the team in addition to the first two games of the new season against Liverpool, Manchester City
The team was swept, and the following 4 matches all shook hands with the opponents, the resilience is full. The team has invested a lot in the summer window, signing players from Burnley, Sunderland, West Ham United and other mid-to-higher teams in the Championship, and also signing high center forward Draper from Manchester City, whose second goal in the last game helped the team force Aston Villa to beat them at home. Of course, in the last game, Villa was distracted by the Champions League lead, and Ipswich's tough style of play, giving enough physical confrontation, coupled with the referee's lenient scale, so that Villa's attacking organization for the whole game was a bit fragmented.
Ipswich played a 4231 formation, with Phillips, on loan from Manchester City, doing a good job of combing the ball out of the team's midfield and back, and the double back pairing of Moores was also able to make timely defensive stops in place. Hutchinson and Draper are more likely to try to tear apart the opponent's defense in the middle of the field by playing wall-to-wall cooperation between them. The team's center back ground out of the ball without dragging the mud, the face of the opponents will be more frequent long pass transfer, but the team's winger O'Beirne, Clarke and other people's ability to break through is limited, many times with the back of the small range of the border guards to force the passes in the high ball, the back of the point of the player to seize the opportunity to grasp the ability of the weak, Draper is not always able to run in the opponents of the center backs of the pack to force the goal! Chance.
West Ham United's center back partners, Kilman and Todibo, are both high school defenders with excellent defensive clearance abilities, and their frontal physical capabilities will make it difficult for Draper to do anything. Rodriguez and other backs of the excellent ability to follow the defense to fill the position, the team is now playing more pragmatic, in addition to the opening of the high press, followed by more will tighten the formation, the use of the speed of the wingbacks and wingers to play behind the back of the over the top of the long passes, Pacueta's midfield combing scheduling, although the recent intensive schedule of the somewhat sluggish, but the schedule in front of the opponents encountered more than a midfield stranglehold of tough mid-table power, and now face the promotion of the horse! Pacueta's pressing intensity will be weakened, and there will be more chances to pass threateningly. Ipswich's backline is actually still relatively weak, and is often penetrated by opponents in the first half.
Prediction: Home win
